Define Pages Generator addon - Support

[crabdance]

crabdance, a "page" of ZC contains many files in many folders:
+ The language file in language folder usually define header, title, etc.
+ The modules/pages/header_php.php contains all the functions or any code needed to be run before loading the template.
+ and the template file.

Basically, when you want to create a page in zencart, which you can access using the link index.php?main_page=page_name, you have to create all those files. This mod simply helps you to create that set of file much faster, and that's it. Even with the new version of this mod or not, this is how things are done on ZC, not because the author of the mod wants to make it that way.

Thanks for letting me know all of this, Yellow. I'm still learning how ZC is put together and what you have just said helps me a lot. I hope that I haven't sounded like I was getting down on the author of the mod. I certainly don't want to do that. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how all this works. BWJ has done a great job with the mod and I don't want to take anything away from him for sure.

The only reason I was "giving up" was that I thought I was making an *ss out of myself for asking so many questions. I thought that maybe I was making too much of this and not getting it straight. I appreciate your help and BWJ's help. You have both helped me to understand some things that would have taken me a while to get.

A big thank you to both of you... you both have been great trying to help me out! I will take the information that you gave me and see if I can try to get it working again.

[yellow1912]

You are welcome. It took me a while to get a hold of ZC as well.

BTW, I made a typo in the post above, should be:
includes/modules/pages/page_name/header_php.php

[banswidthjunkie]

@crabdance <- don't feel like you are being an *ss for asking questions, none of my friends can program and when I try to explain it to them they don't understand. I wouldn't even like to think about how long I have spent learning programing languages. I spent a solid year learning virtually every nuance of C++ on government money and since then I can pick up a new language pretty quickly (although I still get very frustrated with CSS). Programing is hard, my philosphy is that anyone who is willing to give it a go deserves a little patience.

[crabdance]

@crabdance <- don't feel like you are being an *ss for asking questions, none of my friends can program and when I try to explain it to them they don't understand. I wouldn't even like to think about how long I have spent learning programing languages. I spent a solid year learning virtually every nuance of C++ on government money and since then I can pick up a new language pretty quickly (although I still get very frustrated with CSS). Programing is hard, my philosphy is that anyone who is willing to give it a go deserves a little patience.

Hi Banswidthjunkie... thanks for making me feel better about the many questions. I understand about how much time you can put into learning programming languages. I have certainly spent a lot of time myself. I don't do it much anymore (by choice lol). Once I understand ZC (or at least enough of it), I hope that I can make contributions too.

If you don't mind... let me try at asking my question again. I understand that I can put: echo '<a href="' . $link_to_my_page . '">Link Text</a>'; in the
includes/templates/template_default/common/tpl_header.php file in the navMain ID section.

Now I just need to know where I should put:
$link_to_my_page = zen_href_link( FILENAME_MY_PAGE, '' );
There must be a standard place where you put this. If you were going to put a link in the nav bar to your page, where would you put this code?

Once again... thanks for the patience and kindness.

[crabdance]

Oh... I love CSS. Almost all of my site was done with the CSS stylesheet. I still don't understand it really well but I think that it is cool how it works. Here's wishing you better times with the CSS files!

[banswidthjunkie]

personally, I would put
$link_to_my_page = zen_href_link( FILENAME_MY_PAGE, '' );
on the line above the line where i wrote
echo '<a href="' . $link_to_my_page . '">Link Text</a>';

You should think of php as a printer. Unlike C++, php is a lazyboy easy language. If you step even an inch out of line with C++ it puts you in your place and lets you know who's boss. But php lets you do what you want.

"echo" means print, everything other than echo is stuff you need to do to print.

By the way don't bother watchong Flock with Richard Gere, it's rubbish.

[yellow1912]

Or, why not just:
echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link( FILENAME_MY_PAGE, '' ) . '">Link Text</a>';

[crabdance]

Ok... I'm trying to get the one liner to work. Give me a bit to play around with it and I will either ask more questions or let you know how things are going.

[crabdance]

Ok... I have got it to work some. I have created a "4Fun" link in the nav bar and it takes me to "some" page but I'm not sure if it's the right one. Here is what the url window shows in FF: http://tranquillas.com/biz/index.php?main_page=4fun
I went into the "define pages editor" and changed the color of the sample text to red (my background is black)... but the sample text does not appear to show up.

Would either of you mind taking a look at my site and see what I'm talking about. Hey... I'm just tickled that I got something to show up on the nav bar <grin>

thanks for the help.